When I was a child, my dream was to become a doctor – to help people, to heal, to give back. It’s what kept me going through ...

In Judaism, the requirement is to pray formally three times a day. It’s lucky that this specifically refers to men (at least ...

Quite apart from its other purposes, a conclave makes for marvellous telly visuals. Which is why in the forthcoming ...

Their stated purpose is to signal to people seeking safety that they are unwelcome here. These proposals are, yet again, an ...

A University of Cambridge historian has uncovered details of a medieval pitchfork-wielding hermit who is venerated by ...

It’s 11 a.m. on a Sunday morning and I am in church, submerged in deep and meaningful thoughts about God, the universe and everything. In fact I’m submerged ...

Though the date of Christmas was officially fixed by Pope Julius I in 350, the earliest recorded celebration dates from 336, ...

Chiara Atik’s recent drama Poor Clare (reviewed in The Tablet by Mark Lawson, 28 June) reawakened what seems a recurrent interest in the complex relationship ...

Invited to join the Jesuits in Spain for a big meeting on synodality, I found I could get from Belfast (where I had given a ...

At an audience in Rome with members of the European Conservative and Reformist (ECR) group of the European Parliament, the ...

The Archdiocese of Bangalore opened the Pope Francis Migrant Centre to support the displaced in Bengaluru, capital of India’s ...

Until recently the US liked this arrangement, but under President Donald Trump it is giving notice that it is coming to an end. Europe has to learn to stand ...